The cpg file is not read/used by mapserver. In your case, and as Stephen pointed out, you should make sure that the font you are using with mapserver contains the glyphs for your greek glyphs.
-- thomas On 26 October 2015 at 20:37, Stefanos Anastasiou <emperor_s...@yahoo.gr> wrote: > Well, apparently there's a problem with greek letters. I created a > shapefile from scratch and saved it with UTF-8 encoding. A ".cpg" file is > created along the shapefile as well that has only the "UTF-8" statement. I > entered greek letters in the shapefile's field and used > > ENCODING UTF-8 > > in the layer level. Also dbfdump gives me UTF-8 Unicode text. > > Still getting weird symbols. The only readable letter is "π" > > Thank you. > > -Stefanos > > > > > > > > Στις 9:11 μ.μ. Δευτέρα, 26 Οκτωβρίου 2015, ο/η thomas bonfort > <thomas.bonf...@gmail.com> έγραψε: > > >> RFC suggests all characters should iconv'd to >> UTF-8. Am I right? > If you're creating the datasource from scratch and have the choice, > then yes, use UTF8. If you have an exisiting datasource you cannot > modify, just set the LAYER->ENCODING to ISO-8859 (well, the one that > is is supported by iconv) and the transormation to utf8 will be done > automatically and internally by mapserver. > > -- > thomas > > >> >> >> -Stefanos >> >> >> >> >> Στις 8:25 μ.μ. Δευτέρα, 26 Οκτωβρίου 2015, ο/η thomas bonfort >> <thomas.bonf...@gmail.com> έγραψε: >> >> >> Stefanos, >> First off, you *need* to know the encoding that's actually used by >> each datasource, there's no way of guessing that reliably >> programmatically. And since MapServer 7, the ENCODING keyword has been >> moved to the LAYER level: >> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-103.html >> If you have the possibility, and/or in the future, always use UTF8 >> inside your datasources. >> >> regards, >> thomas >> >> On 26 October 2015 at 19:16, Stefanos Anastasiou <emperor_s...@yahoo.gr> >> wrote: >>> Hello everybody. >>> >>> I'm having a small issue with truetype and encoding in greek. Instead of >>> normal letters I'm getting weird symbols or even shapes. >>> >>> iconv -l | grep {GREEK | ISO-8859-7 | WINDOWS-1253} are all >>> present in the system. >>> >>> >>> My Mapserver version: >>> >>> MapServer version 7.0.0 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=KML SUPPORTS=PROJ >>> SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=XMP >>> SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT >>> SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER >>> SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER >>> SUPPORTS=FASTCGI >>> SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL >>> INPUT=SHAPEFILE >>> >>> >>> My LABEL object in my code is the following: >>> >>> LABEL >>> TYPE truetype >>> FONT arial >>> SIZE 6 >>> PARTIALS TRUE >>> ENCODING GREEK >>> END >>> >>> I also tried ENCODING ISO-8859-7 and WINDOWS-1253. But getting symbols >>> instead of letters. The closest to human readable is with encoding >>> UTF-8... >>> but still. >>> >>> I'm probably missing something here.What is the problem ? >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mapserver-users mailing list >>> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
